Multiple Origins: Edward Westermarck in Search of Mankind: v. 6 (European Studies in the History of Science and Ideas) - Tapa blanda

Ihanus, Juhani

 
9783631344552: Multiple Origins: Edward Westermarck in Search of Mankind: v. 6 (European Studies in the History of Science and Ideas)

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Based on extensive research this work gives a detailed account and a reappraisal of Edward Westermarck's thought. Westermarck had versatile relations to Victorian evolutionists (Wallace, Tylor, Spencer), and to British social anthropologists (Frazer, Haddon, Rivers, Malinowski) and psychologists (Shand, Sully). Westermarck was a pioneer of anthropological fieldwork, and his writings on the history of marriage and on the origin and development of moral ideas are modern classics. He was a transitional figure between evolutionism, on the one hand, and functionalism and structuralism, on the other hand. Westermarck's theories of exogamy and incest, and his notions of psychological ethics, moral emotions and concepts, and expanding morality were referred to by Durkheim and Freud, as they are referred to by present-day evolutionary theorists. The search for mankind continues to be of current interest.

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The Author: Juhani Ihanus is Docent of Cultural Psychology (University of Helsinki), and of the History of Science and Ideas (University of Oulu).

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9780820443065: Multiple Origins: Edward Westermarck in Search of Mankind: 6 (European Studies in the History of Science and Ideas, Volume 6)

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ISBN 10:  0820443069 ISBN 13:  9780820443065
Editorial: PETER LANG, 1999
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